ECE 594 - Mathematical Models of Language

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Subject Area Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, and Acoustics
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 537
Course Directors Stephen E Levinson
Description Mathematical models of linguistic structure and their implementation in computational algorithms used in automatic speech understanding and speech synthesis. Statistical and automata theoretic techniques are studied allowing a quantitative description of acoustic-phonetics, phonology, phonotactics, lexicons, syntax and semantics. Students will use the methods to build components of a speech understanding system.
Notes Same as LING 594.
For 4 hours credit, an extended project is required.
Credit 3 or 4 hours.
Computer Usage Two classical computer experiments illustrating how modeling techniques capture linguistic structure will be assigned.
Course Prerequisites ECE 537
Texts S.E. Levinson, Mathematical Models for Speech Technology, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.